In fewer than 15 years, nanomedicine has gone from fantasy to reality.
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The mother of disabled twins doggedly pursued the root of her children's illness and found it in their genome profiles.
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At the nanoscale old materials acquire new properties that International Institute for Nanotechnology Director Chad Mirkin thinks will change the way medicine is practiced.
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Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
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